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...Heddi Siebel, a painter and printmaker, is teaching “Printmaking I” this fall. She, too, enjoys teaching students who are new to the medium. “I like working with students who are making prints for the first time because they have lots of questions,” she says. “It makes you go back to the beginning of the process and really look at what can be gained from each technique...
...First case in point: Thursday. In the morning Greenspan, along with encouraging corporate words from Nokia and Siebel, put the Dow on a 100-point rally that was spreading nicely across the indexes. But by afternoon the nibblers had done their work and the Dow and NASDAQ had given back half the day's gains; another run-up had run out of steam...
...governorship a year ago. Representing a coalition of power companies, Racicot met with vice-presidential aides on Dec. 3, sources tell TIME, and argued to relax a clean-air law requiring utilities to install new pollution controls when they upgrade plants. In November he sent promotional material for Siebel Systems software to Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, according to Siebel executive Frank Bishop. Racicot, a Siebel director, followed up with a phone call to Ridge. Racicot says it is "insulting" to suggest his political role might help his lobbying. "I've never found that a bad argument...
...deal Plattner orchestrated in June 2000 to combine forces with Commerce One, a U.S. Internet software company, helped shore up SAP's strengths in building business-to-business marketplaces on the Web. And now Plattner is gearing up to gain on Siebel Systems, the leading firm in the market for sales force, marketing and customer-service software products. As he has repeatedly demonstrated - on his yacht and in the software sector - Plattner doesn't like to lose any race...
...Forward Spin: While it would be a mistake to underestimate the strengths of players like Siebel and i2, information technology market research firm IDC says SAP's main competition going forward will be from the software industry's heaviest hitters. Microsoft bought Great Plains, an enterprise-application software company, in December 2000 and is expected to target part of SAP's traditional customer base. While IBM isn't talking about its plans, it is expected to make a defensive play, and Oracle is putting more of its efforts into corporate software applications, SAP's core strength...